When the country and its top bureaucrats are so much fond of doing social justice to a good majority of Indian population. I and a lot of like minded people like me in the country have a proposal to make to such great thought leaders at the top of the country. Thanks to them to have come up with such an excellent idea of dividing the nation in the most innovative way.
Now let me make my propositions for a socially equitable society but mind you I am trying to follow not my own ideology, I am trying to use my brain and the Ideology of great thought leaders of the country who have come up with such a great policy of reservation for OBCs at higher education level. Hats off to them for such ill motivated thought and policy.
Proposal for further reservations for OBCs or any other castes/communities as the government or such great thought leaders seem to be fit and important for.
27% reservation in judiciary as desired by certain sect of people as it was highlighted in the media a couple of days back.
Reason – if education is the birth right of every Indian, even judiciary is something very important, because if they cannot get equal rights in judicial matters they may not be treated properly and they may be behind and it would be unjust to them.(same argument as for the one made for higher education).
27% reservation in all posts (top posts i.e. at the top 2 layers of these organizations) of police, army, military, navy and all such organizations/bodies of government.
Reason – as per certain study or comment a figure of 52% was mentioned to be the approximate population of OBCs, so if that is the case they need fair amount of participation in all such institutions of the country where they are not being given social justice for such a long time since independence.
27% reservation in the parliament and all state assemblies including the municipalities and corporations.
Reason – they need to be given at least this many seats and place in all these bodies, now come on you talk about social justice and if you cannot give them place in the most important bodies of the country then where is justice.
27% reservation in all trains, buses, airlines, ships and any other kind of public transport or utility run by the government.(including the right to walk on the road)
Reason – all the general category people always benefit from all these facilities leaving out OBCs, so let’s do justice to them. We already have so many quotas in all other public transport like railways so adding another will not be a problem. Let’s do it. Even OBCs travel and because of general category people their seat is always waitlisted, so let’s give them this reservation and help them.
27% reservation in all government jobs including schools and hospitals, they need to get their due even in these organizations
Reason – if they can be given reservation to study, then they also need reservation in work if not how will they get employed; it would be injustice to them. Let’s do some social justice and bring them up.
27% reservation in every other thing you can think of, because I can go on and on and on with ideas and more avenues, so I leave it for you to think and make your own proposals keeping in mind social justice and equality.
More over dare not to play with this 27%, it will be the same, even the most respected Supreme Court of India has played safe and not even touched it even by half a percent. So better be careful (no need to mention but just for your memory and confirmation all the above plans will not go against the proposed creamy layer concept as well, so everything is proposed to be done as prescribed and ordered by the Supreme body).
And you must be thinking I have gone mad and that’s why I came up with the above list, now come on be practical and try to follow the ideology of the great souls in the country who have come up with this plan and the souls who have approved it and given an honorable judgment in the same lines. It’s very simple if this is the way to bring social justice in education (mark my words “education” and I don’t mean higher education) then it can also be the way to bring equality and social justice in every other field in the country so lets try and get it implemented, if not you shall have to curse yourself all your life, that you were a part of such social injustice happening.
I am still shocked and surprised that the honorable supreme court of India completely reversed its decision in the course of a year or so and that too with an explanation with which at least I am not satisfied being a citizen. (I know I am no one to be satisfied but I just wanted to say that I am not satisfied, irrespective of whether it makes a difference or not) Now come on guys lets celebrate this great proposal by me and lets work and fight to get it approved and implemented as soon as possible, because after all its about social justice and equality and we must not be late in this front, we have already done a lot of injustice to so many people of the country, and don’t forget we have all those people and institutions behind us for this proposal as well as for the educational reservation thing. (if they supported for reservation in education that too at higher education level, will they not support such a great idea of social justice) JAI HIND
P.S – there is no intention to hurt any individual/caste/religion/organization or supreme body. These are my thoughts and I stand by them and I stand by my sarcasm, because that’s the only thing I am left with every other thing is going to fall under the reservation policy. So Cheers….
Friday, April 25, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
I am Sick!!!!
Of Ill motivated policies, of poor thoughts, of cheap politics and there is no medicine for any of these, not even Reservation!!!!!
Just a minute, I am not able to stop laughing….. yes not able to stop laughing,,, but why, because I cannot cry nor can I complain….. I am helpless….. Our country is helpless but why... ?? Yes most of us in our country are helpless. It has taken me more than a week to just settle down and have the courage and the motivation to pen down my feelings after such a historic judgment by the Honorable Supreme Court of India.
I am talking about the judgment on reservation for OBC’s in the elite institutes of the country. Why did it take more than a week for me to settle down and digest this verdict?
The following points may be the reasons I can explain to be some of the reasons why it took me such long time to accept the decision and do nothing more than that.
1) Only 1.5 out of every hundred in India go for higher education, and without any doubt more than 90% of these must be people from General Category. (The figure of 1.5 out of 100 is based on a report from a leading magazine and the 90% thing is my assumption, if u think for yourself I think u would agree with this number, just think about your peers)
2) 50 per cent of the IIT seats for the SCs and STs remain vacant, and for the remaining 50 per cent, 25 per cent are the candidates who even after six years fail to get their degrees. (Are reservations really working, where ever they are existing now - Source: IIT research, Blog of my friend Mahesh)
3) In Delhi University, between 1995 and 2000, just half the seats for under-graduates at the Scheduled Castes level and just one-third of the seats for under-graduates at the Scheduled Tribes level were filled. All the others went empty, unfilled. (So, again, are reservations working? - Source: Parliamentary Committee on the welfare for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Blog of my friend Mahesh)
4) Overall in India, only 16 per cent of the places in higher education are occupied by SCs and STs. The quota is 22.5 per cent, which means that only two-thirds of the quota is occupied. One-third is going waste, it is being denied to other people (- Source: The Hindustan Times, Blog of my friend Mahesh)
5) No study in the country is available to prove or justify the population of OBCs, I know this point is irrelevant when we want to be in a reservation free society, but just wanted to highlight the fact that why and how has the government and the Supreme Court had a consensus on the figure of 27% reservation.
6) Dr. Ambedkar who started the policy of reservation during his times clearly mentioned and highlighted the fact that reservation is just a short term tool to bring equality in the country, so his insisted that the reservation for SCs and STs which he proposed need to be slowly removed after a certain period of time. But god help us it has been 60+ years after our independence and none of us have either seen any change in the life of SCs or STs due to the reservation and neither the policy has been reviewed or removed as per the direction of Dr. Ambedkar.
7) Now coming again to Dr. Ambedkar’s line of thought, he initiated this reservation program thinking that it would work wonders for the country, but unfortunately it has not at least for the past 60 years, so I pity on our country and the bureaucrats at the top who even after seeing such a big failure haven’t reviewed or removed the existing reservation policy and in fact they have come up with another topping on the Ice as another reservation policy thinking that at least this will work. Now god please tell me who in the world will explain these people that when you have played with a policy for 60 years and it has not worked does it make any sense to come up with another such ill motivated policy to play with the lives of the people of the country.
8) Does any political party in this country think beyond VOTES, I haven’t encountered any yet. In my life from when I have come to senses I have not seen any move by a single political party which was not politically motivated. The verdict on reservation is a rare incident where no political party has dared or even dreamt of speaking up against the verdict even if they have opposite feelings. You know why??? Because if they dare to raise their voice against this they will straight away lose the votes of the so called OBCs and to bring you to the ground reality – More SC’s, ST’s and OBC’s go to vote than the general category people. So don’t you think these political parties would do anything to keep them happy, irrespective of what is good for the nation. For the brotherhood of everyone in the nation. No they are bothered only about YOUR VOTE, you promise them a vote, they will do any thing for u, yes anything means ANYTHING, trust me!!!!!
9) According to different reports including the census data (also the Mandal commission and other committees which were working on this) and other studies, the total number of castes which fall into the OBC category is not yet clear to anyone and also the basis on which they are being classified as OBC. So please explain me these things before you talk about welfare and equality.
10) If you know a bit of constitution or even if you have read your civics well in class IX, try to recollect the class when your social science teacher was talking about things like Unity in Diversity, No caste, creed or religion, brotherhood, equality and Fundamental Rights. If you can recollect something about all these issues you can remember that our constitution says there must not be any kind of differentiation based on caste, creed, religion or region in the country. So are policies like this one respecting the Constitution of the country which was formed with utmost care and good objective and intention for the NATION.
11) The Supreme Court of India itself rejected the case for reservation exactly one year back saying there is lack of information and valid studies or reports to implement any such kind of reservation, I am still surprised/ shocked what substantial it got in this one year to give a completely contradictory Judgment. May be I am not aware of the exact reasons and justifications behind it because I do not understand law, but I am still not convinced (with complete respect to the Supreme body, this is just my view).
12) The HRD minister Mr. X (I don’t want to use his name here, does not make any difference) in an interview with Karan Thapar was not able to answer a single question regarding the reservation policy one year back, my question is – when the person who is lobbying for a cause in the Parliament of the country does not even know a single thing about the issue why is he a minister at all at first place and why do we need such minister’s who don’t know what they are doing and what they need to do. I am damn sure that even after the judgment has been passed he is not sure even about a single fact regarding the issue and is just celebrating that something which he lobbied for is finally successful. I pity on him and on the country, we are heading towards a great future.
13) The population of the country which is not able to even complete schooling, if u reserve seats for them in post graduate level institutes what sense does it make. If you are seriously concerned about equality and stuff like that, first try to ensure that they are able to at least complete schooling and under graduation. And then you can think about other things.
14) They say General category students will not be affected by the reservation thing because they will increase the number of seats accordingly. Now who will tell these people that “BOSS, wake up, the nation does not have enough faculty to even fulfill the current strength and needs, IITs haven’t paid salary to their employees, quality of education is deteriorating at top institutes, there is no infrastructure in place at the moment, please don’t do this for the sake of it to make the general category voters feel that their interests have been taken care of, we (Indian citizens) don’t need your sympathy and concern, we would love to get our rights with merit and not from cheap political moves”.
15) Our country has almost one school on an average in every one kilometers distance except a few places in Bihar and Rajasthan, but do these schools have teachers, buildings, black boards, books, walls, and other infrastructure to even make it eligible to be called a SCHOOL. When you have problems at the ground floor and you are making policies to do something at the terrace, what does it speak about you and your senses? I don’t think some sane person will do this(I don’t mean that those who are making such policies are insane but what do I do, what ever they have done does not prove that they are using their senses, at least in the right direction for the right cause and problem)
16) I believe every citizen of this country respects Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru irrespective of their caste, religion, state, political party or any other mode of division. He was very particular in his statement and he very clearly said that he was against any kind of reservation in the country. So lets at least respect some ones words whom we all respect as a person, at least because he is a Chacha for all of us irrespective of any division you can create.
17) Now such sick policies and ideas will create even more sicker and crazier ideas in minds of people of the country, to start with minority status and reservation for Muslims, then for Christians then for parsi’s, sindhi’s, jain’s, and every other caste or religion. My god please save our country and the crazy ideas of people till they reach heaven to meet you, let them explain their crazy ideas to you directly in spite of wasting them here on earth and spoiling lives of innocent people around.
18) Assume yourself in a restaurant, theatre, school, hospital, court, stadium, your own office, your apartment or colony, street, temple, and any place which you visit regularly and try to fit this reservation policy there (22.5% for SCs and STs and 27% for OBCs, other reservations depending upon your state or locality), now start asking yourself how would you feel in these places and in different situations. I think there cannot be a better way to imagine the impact of any kind of reservation in the country.
19) Now as the reservation thing is implemented don’t you think a rift between these castes would have already started due to all the war of words going on for such a long time now, did we require this for such a ill thought policy.
I can keep on going with many other reasons like the few which I have stated above, but will it make any sense. The verdict has already been given by the most respectable Supreme Court of India. I would just say and in fact request all politically motivated souls of the country to GET A LIFE and stop playing with the lives and emotions of 110 crore people of the country. Please spare us for the sake of peace, harmony and brotherhood in the country. You want votes, I will give you my vote, in fact I will lobby for you irrespective of who you are, which state you are from, which religion you belong to, which caste you belong to, which sex you are of, and any such kind of questions. I just will look for good intention, practical orientation, good knowledge about the country and the people, do’s and don’ts of your job, and genuine hard working capability, that’s it you will get the vote of the whole nation, but please don’t play cheap politics and spoil lives of people in fighting with each other for material and immaterial things. We have a big and beautiful country, lets live with brotherhood and harmony. Please for GOD SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!
Now do you think I could have digested this fact yet, No, but this is the way life is, and finally I am here to share my thoughts wit everyone irrespective of your caste!!!
One year back I had made a well studied report on my thoughts about Reservation with a possible solution. You can have a look at it HERE.
P.S- (I did not want to mention I, me or name of any caste or there was no intention to prove good any particular caste or category, what ever I have used was just to help explain my point easily. I don’t have any problem with any particular individual or institution, if any name or reference is used above its just for illustration and ease of understanding. I completely respect and honor the Supreme Court of India, Dr. Ambedkar and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, there names were just used to make a point relating to them and not to offend any ones feelings. The above content is just to pour down my feelings and there is no intention to hurt or offend any individual or institution. I still am proud to be a Citizen of India and would live throughout my life as one and would always like to be called as known as a Citizen of India and not as a member of any caste/creed/religion/state/community/any other type of division you want to create. I am Indian and I am not bothered what other ways you want to see me or call me in. Jai Hind!!!!! )
. To see the text and the video of Karan Thapar’s interview with Arjun Singh click HERE
Just a minute, I am not able to stop laughing….. yes not able to stop laughing,,, but why, because I cannot cry nor can I complain….. I am helpless….. Our country is helpless but why... ?? Yes most of us in our country are helpless. It has taken me more than a week to just settle down and have the courage and the motivation to pen down my feelings after such a historic judgment by the Honorable Supreme Court of India.
I am talking about the judgment on reservation for OBC’s in the elite institutes of the country. Why did it take more than a week for me to settle down and digest this verdict?
The following points may be the reasons I can explain to be some of the reasons why it took me such long time to accept the decision and do nothing more than that.
1) Only 1.5 out of every hundred in India go for higher education, and without any doubt more than 90% of these must be people from General Category. (The figure of 1.5 out of 100 is based on a report from a leading magazine and the 90% thing is my assumption, if u think for yourself I think u would agree with this number, just think about your peers)
2) 50 per cent of the IIT seats for the SCs and STs remain vacant, and for the remaining 50 per cent, 25 per cent are the candidates who even after six years fail to get their degrees. (Are reservations really working, where ever they are existing now - Source: IIT research, Blog of my friend Mahesh)
3) In Delhi University, between 1995 and 2000, just half the seats for under-graduates at the Scheduled Castes level and just one-third of the seats for under-graduates at the Scheduled Tribes level were filled. All the others went empty, unfilled. (So, again, are reservations working? - Source: Parliamentary Committee on the welfare for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Blog of my friend Mahesh)
4) Overall in India, only 16 per cent of the places in higher education are occupied by SCs and STs. The quota is 22.5 per cent, which means that only two-thirds of the quota is occupied. One-third is going waste, it is being denied to other people (- Source: The Hindustan Times, Blog of my friend Mahesh)
5) No study in the country is available to prove or justify the population of OBCs, I know this point is irrelevant when we want to be in a reservation free society, but just wanted to highlight the fact that why and how has the government and the Supreme Court had a consensus on the figure of 27% reservation.
6) Dr. Ambedkar who started the policy of reservation during his times clearly mentioned and highlighted the fact that reservation is just a short term tool to bring equality in the country, so his insisted that the reservation for SCs and STs which he proposed need to be slowly removed after a certain period of time. But god help us it has been 60+ years after our independence and none of us have either seen any change in the life of SCs or STs due to the reservation and neither the policy has been reviewed or removed as per the direction of Dr. Ambedkar.
7) Now coming again to Dr. Ambedkar’s line of thought, he initiated this reservation program thinking that it would work wonders for the country, but unfortunately it has not at least for the past 60 years, so I pity on our country and the bureaucrats at the top who even after seeing such a big failure haven’t reviewed or removed the existing reservation policy and in fact they have come up with another topping on the Ice as another reservation policy thinking that at least this will work. Now god please tell me who in the world will explain these people that when you have played with a policy for 60 years and it has not worked does it make any sense to come up with another such ill motivated policy to play with the lives of the people of the country.
8) Does any political party in this country think beyond VOTES, I haven’t encountered any yet. In my life from when I have come to senses I have not seen any move by a single political party which was not politically motivated. The verdict on reservation is a rare incident where no political party has dared or even dreamt of speaking up against the verdict even if they have opposite feelings. You know why??? Because if they dare to raise their voice against this they will straight away lose the votes of the so called OBCs and to bring you to the ground reality – More SC’s, ST’s and OBC’s go to vote than the general category people. So don’t you think these political parties would do anything to keep them happy, irrespective of what is good for the nation. For the brotherhood of everyone in the nation. No they are bothered only about YOUR VOTE, you promise them a vote, they will do any thing for u, yes anything means ANYTHING, trust me!!!!!
9) According to different reports including the census data (also the Mandal commission and other committees which were working on this) and other studies, the total number of castes which fall into the OBC category is not yet clear to anyone and also the basis on which they are being classified as OBC. So please explain me these things before you talk about welfare and equality.
10) If you know a bit of constitution or even if you have read your civics well in class IX, try to recollect the class when your social science teacher was talking about things like Unity in Diversity, No caste, creed or religion, brotherhood, equality and Fundamental Rights. If you can recollect something about all these issues you can remember that our constitution says there must not be any kind of differentiation based on caste, creed, religion or region in the country. So are policies like this one respecting the Constitution of the country which was formed with utmost care and good objective and intention for the NATION.
11) The Supreme Court of India itself rejected the case for reservation exactly one year back saying there is lack of information and valid studies or reports to implement any such kind of reservation, I am still surprised/ shocked what substantial it got in this one year to give a completely contradictory Judgment. May be I am not aware of the exact reasons and justifications behind it because I do not understand law, but I am still not convinced (with complete respect to the Supreme body, this is just my view).
12) The HRD minister Mr. X (I don’t want to use his name here, does not make any difference) in an interview with Karan Thapar was not able to answer a single question regarding the reservation policy one year back, my question is – when the person who is lobbying for a cause in the Parliament of the country does not even know a single thing about the issue why is he a minister at all at first place and why do we need such minister’s who don’t know what they are doing and what they need to do. I am damn sure that even after the judgment has been passed he is not sure even about a single fact regarding the issue and is just celebrating that something which he lobbied for is finally successful. I pity on him and on the country, we are heading towards a great future.
13) The population of the country which is not able to even complete schooling, if u reserve seats for them in post graduate level institutes what sense does it make. If you are seriously concerned about equality and stuff like that, first try to ensure that they are able to at least complete schooling and under graduation. And then you can think about other things.
14) They say General category students will not be affected by the reservation thing because they will increase the number of seats accordingly. Now who will tell these people that “BOSS, wake up, the nation does not have enough faculty to even fulfill the current strength and needs, IITs haven’t paid salary to their employees, quality of education is deteriorating at top institutes, there is no infrastructure in place at the moment, please don’t do this for the sake of it to make the general category voters feel that their interests have been taken care of, we (Indian citizens) don’t need your sympathy and concern, we would love to get our rights with merit and not from cheap political moves”.
15) Our country has almost one school on an average in every one kilometers distance except a few places in Bihar and Rajasthan, but do these schools have teachers, buildings, black boards, books, walls, and other infrastructure to even make it eligible to be called a SCHOOL. When you have problems at the ground floor and you are making policies to do something at the terrace, what does it speak about you and your senses? I don’t think some sane person will do this(I don’t mean that those who are making such policies are insane but what do I do, what ever they have done does not prove that they are using their senses, at least in the right direction for the right cause and problem)
16) I believe every citizen of this country respects Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru irrespective of their caste, religion, state, political party or any other mode of division. He was very particular in his statement and he very clearly said that he was against any kind of reservation in the country. So lets at least respect some ones words whom we all respect as a person, at least because he is a Chacha for all of us irrespective of any division you can create.
17) Now such sick policies and ideas will create even more sicker and crazier ideas in minds of people of the country, to start with minority status and reservation for Muslims, then for Christians then for parsi’s, sindhi’s, jain’s, and every other caste or religion. My god please save our country and the crazy ideas of people till they reach heaven to meet you, let them explain their crazy ideas to you directly in spite of wasting them here on earth and spoiling lives of innocent people around.
18) Assume yourself in a restaurant, theatre, school, hospital, court, stadium, your own office, your apartment or colony, street, temple, and any place which you visit regularly and try to fit this reservation policy there (22.5% for SCs and STs and 27% for OBCs, other reservations depending upon your state or locality), now start asking yourself how would you feel in these places and in different situations. I think there cannot be a better way to imagine the impact of any kind of reservation in the country.
19) Now as the reservation thing is implemented don’t you think a rift between these castes would have already started due to all the war of words going on for such a long time now, did we require this for such a ill thought policy.
I can keep on going with many other reasons like the few which I have stated above, but will it make any sense. The verdict has already been given by the most respectable Supreme Court of India. I would just say and in fact request all politically motivated souls of the country to GET A LIFE and stop playing with the lives and emotions of 110 crore people of the country. Please spare us for the sake of peace, harmony and brotherhood in the country. You want votes, I will give you my vote, in fact I will lobby for you irrespective of who you are, which state you are from, which religion you belong to, which caste you belong to, which sex you are of, and any such kind of questions. I just will look for good intention, practical orientation, good knowledge about the country and the people, do’s and don’ts of your job, and genuine hard working capability, that’s it you will get the vote of the whole nation, but please don’t play cheap politics and spoil lives of people in fighting with each other for material and immaterial things. We have a big and beautiful country, lets live with brotherhood and harmony. Please for GOD SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!
Now do you think I could have digested this fact yet, No, but this is the way life is, and finally I am here to share my thoughts wit everyone irrespective of your caste!!!
One year back I had made a well studied report on my thoughts about Reservation with a possible solution. You can have a look at it HERE.
P.S- (I did not want to mention I, me or name of any caste or there was no intention to prove good any particular caste or category, what ever I have used was just to help explain my point easily. I don’t have any problem with any particular individual or institution, if any name or reference is used above its just for illustration and ease of understanding. I completely respect and honor the Supreme Court of India, Dr. Ambedkar and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, there names were just used to make a point relating to them and not to offend any ones feelings. The above content is just to pour down my feelings and there is no intention to hurt or offend any individual or institution. I still am proud to be a Citizen of India and would live throughout my life as one and would always like to be called as known as a Citizen of India and not as a member of any caste/creed/religion/state/community/any other type of division you want to create. I am Indian and I am not bothered what other ways you want to see me or call me in. Jai Hind!!!!! )
. To see the text and the video of Karan Thapar’s interview with Arjun Singh click HERE
Saturday, April 5, 2008
In The Name of WATER - Unity in Diversity!!!!!! – Where
The water war between Karnataka and Tamilnadu never seems to end and no idea why this comes up only when the hot summer is around. If you could well remember last year during February the war of words and actions was on between the 2 states for the Kaveri River and had created a lot of ill feelings between the people of the states. This year rather it is for Hongenakkal. The politicians of Karnataka are blaming Karunanidhi and are claiming that Tamilnadu is wrong in its project. I do not understand that why is everything politicized in this country, I agree that politicians do it for some community or the other but can they not speak and sort out things. Why do they go to the extent of blaming each other, cursing each others culture and background, ill treating people of each others state, damaging transport amenities and disrupting peace and harmony in both the states and creating some kind of hatred and chaos in the country?
Are we true Indians who talk about unity in diversity and things like that, if that is the case where is our unity now. Where is our integrity now? I am sometimes surprised over such incidents and I feel really bad about them.
Last year when this problem between Tamilnadu and Karnataka was going on, I was traveling to Karnataka via Train for an interview, my family members were all worried for me. As any one coming from Tamilnadu was not being treated well at Karnataka, was the perception that was built through what ever news we came to know from the TV and newspapers. So it was a really sad thing. (But I did not face any problems.)
What I feel is, if there is a problem between two governments why do they disrupt the lives of common man, they can sort it out via what ever way they feel they will get the justice, but making people sensitive about it and motivating them to have rival feelings for the neighbor state is not good. Even if they want to fight against some thing wrong, I don’t think such kind of damaging property and disrupting normal life helps in any way. I am very upset today after reading the news and seeing the news channels which show grey pictures of the way people of both states are reacting to the situation and the way they are making things political instead of trying to work out a solution for the same.
My only request and prayer to the people of this country is to remember that integrity, unity in diversity and all these words are not just words for our country, they truly mean the spirit of the nation. So at least for the sake of the country’s principles stop all these political dramas and let peace prevail and let the public live fear free and continue their normal life normally. And about kaveri and Hongenakkal let the best for the people of the country happen instead of fighting as two separate states.
Are we true Indians who talk about unity in diversity and things like that, if that is the case where is our unity now. Where is our integrity now? I am sometimes surprised over such incidents and I feel really bad about them.
Last year when this problem between Tamilnadu and Karnataka was going on, I was traveling to Karnataka via Train for an interview, my family members were all worried for me. As any one coming from Tamilnadu was not being treated well at Karnataka, was the perception that was built through what ever news we came to know from the TV and newspapers. So it was a really sad thing. (But I did not face any problems.)
What I feel is, if there is a problem between two governments why do they disrupt the lives of common man, they can sort it out via what ever way they feel they will get the justice, but making people sensitive about it and motivating them to have rival feelings for the neighbor state is not good. Even if they want to fight against some thing wrong, I don’t think such kind of damaging property and disrupting normal life helps in any way. I am very upset today after reading the news and seeing the news channels which show grey pictures of the way people of both states are reacting to the situation and the way they are making things political instead of trying to work out a solution for the same.
My only request and prayer to the people of this country is to remember that integrity, unity in diversity and all these words are not just words for our country, they truly mean the spirit of the nation. So at least for the sake of the country’s principles stop all these political dramas and let peace prevail and let the public live fear free and continue their normal life normally. And about kaveri and Hongenakkal let the best for the people of the country happen instead of fighting as two separate states.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Live to Love Life My Way!!!!
Every thing has to stop or come to an end some day, but why I am talking about end. I am just half way my journey. By end I mean an end of the first academic year of my MBA life. A year full of hard work, fun, learning’s, mistakes, enthusiasm, and lot more such adjectives (I am sorry I know only these many adjectives, in short only this much English).
I started this journey with lots of hope and desires, wanted to do everything possible under the sun, as far as possible in this first year, but being a human, a typical human I was just able to do only quite a few things which I planned. But also did quite a few things which I never planned. I took life as it came in this one year, it does not mean I was careless or easy going, I had targets set for myself, but nothing happens as someone plans it’s always the opposite of what u desire happens. I would not say everything went against my desires. It was just that I was not hard enough to myself to do a lot of things I actually wanted to do. Spent a lot of time gazing, talking crap, nonsense, networking, and all such related stuff and I am not sure whether all that is good or bad, all that was required or not. I just kept doing what ever my heart asked me to do; I stopped listening to my mind. But its ok, in the journey called life, you never end up doing things u planned.
I started this journey with lots of hope and desires, wanted to do everything possible under the sun, as far as possible in this first year, but being a human, a typical human I was just able to do only quite a few things which I planned. But also did quite a few things which I never planned. I took life as it came in this one year, it does not mean I was careless or easy going, I had targets set for myself, but nothing happens as someone plans it’s always the opposite of what u desire happens. I would not say everything went against my desires. It was just that I was not hard enough to myself to do a lot of things I actually wanted to do. Spent a lot of time gazing, talking crap, nonsense, networking, and all such related stuff and I am not sure whether all that is good or bad, all that was required or not. I just kept doing what ever my heart asked me to do; I stopped listening to my mind. But its ok, in the journey called life, you never end up doing things u planned.
But why I am talking about all this, what do I feel, do I feel happy for the past 9 months, or do I feel sad and dejected. I am not sad for sure and I am neither too happy, but I would say I am just satisfied to an extent that, yes the past 9 months have added some value to me, to my life. Even now I have a lots of plans in my mind for the short term and I am very sure I would be able to achieve only 20% of what ever I have planned, but I feel it’s necessary for me to plan this 100% to at least reach to the 20% level. I would try and work to the best of my abilities, but I know at times I would get diverted, then I need some one to ask me “Boss, hello, where r u, what r u doing”, and then I will be back on track.
I thought I would share my overall experience of the past 9 months this time, but as I am typing it I am not able to think about my experience, but I am only able to think about what went wrong and what went right and so on.
The first year of MBA @ IFMR was a really good year, with lots of learning’s. I think I shall enlist here the things which instantaneously come to my mind as soon as I think of 1st year @ IFMR and I am sure these things will remain in my mind any day in my life as soon as I think of it. So let me begin with it, be it good or bad.
-The first and the Happiest thing to be able recollect is Abhyudaya 2008, the dream event of my life, I would say again that it was my ultimate focus for 3-4 months and it was one major part of 1st year @ IFMR.
-Appeared on T.V twice and was live on Radio once, on TV for program related to budget and on radio to promote Abhyudaya.
-My first presentation at IFMR, on Dun and Bradstreet was appreciated by everyone present there and was one of the motivating factors for me to give away my shyness and stage fear, and the results are evident. Be it any presentation in class, any group or subject it be, the introduction i.e. the start of all the presentations used to be by me. Ironically this was because I never knew what the rest of the presentation was all about. LoL. But believe me I gained confidence and I still have it, just after my first presentation in life with a PPT.
-Winning a couple of prizes at LIBA in their b-school fest is another moment I recollect as it happened very recently, I registered for a lot of events at different b-schools, but took part only in a couple of them, due to a lot of factors including my team mates(3 cheers to u my CEO’s ). This one at LIBA was really special indeed.
-Organizing the Farewell for seniors is another event in which I was completely involved, and I enjoyed being a part of it, irrespective of the time I had to spend on it, while avoiding other important things.
-Mr. Ram Kumar’s (Head HR, ICICI Bank) lecture was another thing which I can never forget in my life, I don’t know why but I felt something about this lecture was too cool. We keep listening to a lot of people and often when ever someone speaks, he/she speaks about good things and that to in a very good way and appreciating way. But this person was some one who spoke badly about things, who criticized people, systems and raised his voice against a lot of things fearlessly amidst a good mix of people. I truly loved his perspective. I actually like to listen to and know different perspectives of people on certain issues.
-One more thing worth a mention here is the nature and the support of our senior Anand; truly he was one person who was a great inspiration to me and a few more at the campus. I truly started doing things seriously after seeing him. I used to contradict his views a lot of times, but I admire and respect his deeds and work which I saw in the past 9 months. He is a true champion for me.
-Learnt quite a few lessons after the 1st and 2nd term and tried to change my self appropriately, not fully but to some extent.
I believe the list for happy things has gone a long long way, lets see what are the things which I am not happy with, or concerned about and I need to try and analyze for myself.
-I lost focus on academics in the process of working on a lot of other things including Abhyudaya.
-Did not spend time on things which were crucial enough for me, to be done in the first year (I know what they r, so don’t feel like listing them here).
-Spent a lot of time in communicating with people, sometimes for important things and otherwise for some nonsense which proved to be a waste of time very often.
-Did not spend much time with family, which was possible, but I did not make too much effort on this front.
-My basics on many subjects learnt in the first year are not strong and which makes me worry now and then, and gives me a guilty feeling.
-The perception I have created for myself in the minds of my batch mates. I am not very much satisfied for the impression I created in their minds. Though I have not done anything wrong, but I have not made a mark, a really good mark in all aspects in people’s mind. (this is what I feel, I am not sure if I am right or wrong)
-There are various other things which upset me, things like not participating in a lot of events which I could have.
-One most important aspect of this review for myself is the concern for me not putting my efforts in the right direction, which could mean, me spending much time on some things less important and spending less time on some things which were more important.
I think the list can go on and on, but I need to stop some where and start working on these areas of concern. So that next time when I write a self review I would have a smaller list than this one. So till then keep watching…. JJ
You must be wondering why I titled this Blog as “Live to Love Life My Way”. You must see my review of the First Term @ IFMR I have titled it “Love to Live life My Way”. Then my review of second term was titled “What am I doing”. So after trying to live life my way, and after trying to figure out what I was doing, I thought experience and time has taught me a lot of things, which now makes me to live my life and love it as it comes and as I make it. I know what I have said doesn’t make much sense but trust me nothing in this world makes sense, normally.
So let me stop here and start working on both my strengths and weaknesses and yes most importantly I need to get set for the Summer Internship @ SIVA VENTURES, which is just a few days away from now. So till then have fun and yea stay tuned!!!!!!!!
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